Meantime, Messer Construction Co. will deliver the 1,496-slot parking garage immediately west of Nationwide Arena late this year.

The developer has promised to keep building around that parking garage for two more years or so. I reported in this week’s paper on Nationwide Realty’s next project – a 120-unit extension of its Flats on Vine apartment complex along Neil Avenue. Construction on Flats II could begin in September with an opening about a year later, pending approval of the city’s Downtown Commission, which meets Aug. 28 to consider the project.

The panel also will consider approval of a 286,000-square-foot office complex anchored by Columbia Gas of Ohio set to go up next to the parking garage. That project will get under construction in early 2013 with delivery expected before the fall 2014.

Also in the Arena District, there’s the sewage gas treatment and venting station going up along Neil Avenue. It's expected to be finished and operational in November, although some construction will continue from the site on underground tunnel work.

And finally, the Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority expects the expanded section of its Vine Street garage to open by the mid-October opening of the Hilton convention center hotel. That garage also will serve employees in the new Nationwide office building.

Brian R. Ball covers commercial real estate and development for Columbus Business First.

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